Giordano Bruno

It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.

In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark. There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.

I who am in the night will move into the day.

There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.

Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.

Since I have spread my wings to purpose high,_x000D_ The more beneath my feet the clouds I see,_x000D_ The more I give the winds my pinions free,_x000D_ Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.

The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. ... It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.

The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.

God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.

Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar_x000D_ to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.

I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

There is no law governing all things.